Benny

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“I told myself that as long as there were books I could be sure of being happy.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles